Art As Artist - Andrew Wulf Reflects On Art

Magnifying glass on Le Grande Jatte art

Only Looking At Art On A Phone Is Missing A Lot

No matter how sharp your phone screen might be, looking at art on it loses most of the power and meaning a piece of art has, as the image is reduced to less than postcard size. Most art is meant to be seen in person as the artist intended. A

Amazed, a mazelike generative artwork in magenta, red, green, blue and yellow

What Is Generative Art?

I am a generative artist. But what does that mean? Generative art is generally created by a process, typically computer code but can also be mechanical or manual, wherein an image is produced automatically. Most often, it includes an element of randomness. Using a computer to generate art goes back

Artwork, mostly blue, with orange, white and yellow, in a complex tiling.

How I Make Art Is Different

My approach to making art is unlike anyone I know; although my work is based on generative art, the process and the result are unique. Given my unusual start as an artist, I leveraged what I knew and how I approached my career as a programmer to forge something different.

Desert with dead trees.

NFTs Are Such A Wasteland

Two years ago, I watched drops on Nifty Gateway, where people were making $1M in five minutes. Beeple set the record back then, selling a giant NFT for $69M at Sotheby's. Looking at drops on Nifty Gateway now, most people are getting a few hundred to low thousands at best.

Portion of my work "A Dance Of Flowers", green, white, purple flowers in a mosaic.

Who Inspired Me As An Artist

I started making art only in 2018 without intending to become an artist, as I had spent the first 60 years of my life being somewhat indifferent to art. However, once I realized how much I liked making art, I invested a lot of time in making up for my

Portion of work by Eddy Mumma, © Josh Feldstein

If Art Isn´t Seen, Does It Exist?

As an artist who only started making art after age 60, the struggle to get people to look at your art is constant. An individual generally makes art, but it's meant to be seen by people. So if no one ever sees it, is it art? In the mid-70s, Eddy

A portion of the work "The Hidden Pond" from 2022.

How I Unexpectedly Became An Artist After Age 60

At the start of 2018, I had only a pedestrian interest in art and zero desire to make any. Yet today, I make a unique form of digital art almost every day and post them several times a month to my website. What happened? In 2015 I moved halfway across